quote:I had my differences with Jürgen over the years, but the one thing you cannot deny is that Jürgen and his staff brought a sense of true professional competitiveness and ambition to the national team.

quote:It’s this simple: That Trinidad & Tobago team was full of athletes, and we were playing away on an atrocious pitch, and we only needed one point to qualify for the World Cup. So what formation did we use? 4-1-3-2. One defensive midfielder. One defensive midfielder, on a terrible pitch, against a team that wants to capitalize on bad bounces and mistakes. When we only needed one point.

quote:Klins should have stayed in some type of director of football like role, which was the original plan after he was done being the manager.

I don’t know what your stance was on Jürgen leading up to his dismissal or the aftermath of his firing, so forgive me if your sentiment here is consistent with what you were saying at the time. But the idea of him moving to a director type role immediately after that shite storm was not an option at the time. Not saying it would be a terrible idea, but I can say pretty confidently that literally no one wanted him sticking around under any circumstance. Also, there’s no way he would have agreed to that anyway, regardless of any potential position offered to him. No way a guy like Jürgen would be willing to stay on just to watch another dude guide his team to what was still thought of at the time an almost certain World Cup berth. But like I said, if this was your stance when it was all happening, fair enough.